DALTONICO (COLOURBLIND)
By Ibada Wadud, Karolina Rychlik & Àngel Masip
A series of large black and white posters bear provocative messages in the old centre of the city of Sanremo. Colourblind, or Daltonico, sets out to open an intercultural dialogue on the most important human values, going beyond the clichés associated with skin colour
photo by Ekaterina Kravtsova
The project also has an objective to encourage a collaboration with different members of the community, promoting understanding. With this in mind, the artists have used the most common languages of the area, not those understood by all members of the community.
photo by Raphael Franco
“testing the stencil. looks like it worked! now off to make the real thing!”
photo by Aastha Chauhan
Coexistence, tolerance and dignity have thus been translated into aesthetically harmonious and elegant textual images, mirrors of their contextual content.
UNIDEE 2011 